Saturday, 26 November 2022

blood dawn
















a blood dawn rises
red for flame
grey for ash

ashes
of a world
dying in its embers

no-one looks beyond
the scarred line
of the horizon

our keloid days
like strung-out flesh
behind the sun

the sky skinned
within an inch
shining like death

knife-edged
morning blisters
the sea disgorges
tomorrow’s disease
© BH, 2022

These fragmentary pieces arrived as a longer poems which broke up by accident or design into separate poems.

I don’t know if I should connect them again somehow. Probably not. But then again…


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